Paul Barnett not only places the New Testament within the world of caesars and Herods, proconsuls and Pharisees, Sadducee and revolutionaries, but argues that the mainspring and driving force of early Christian history is the historical Jesus.
First Corinthians is Paul's masterly pastoral letter to a church, which he founded five years earlier, but which in the meantime has lost its way.
If everyone writes from a point of view and with an agenda, can we reasonably expect any historical account to be objective-to tell us the truth? In this second edition,... Læs mere